Repatriating Cahokia: Pursuing Tribal Priorities in and around NAGPRA

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The NAGPRA Office at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is in the process of coordinating a multi-tribe, multi-institution project with the goal of repatriating Ancestors and cultural items from the Cahokia site, near present-day East St. Louis. This presentation summarizes the development and current status of the project, as well as its future goals. In particular, it will detail tribal requests for the identification of additional Cahokia collections, including those which are not known to fall under NAGPRA. Our partner tribes are committed to interpreting Ancestors and objects from Cahokia as comprehensively as possible, and collections from the site are widespread across the country and perhaps globally. Sharing collection information across institutions and with tribes, for collections both within and outside the scope of NAGPRA, is critical for ensuring the collaborating tribes have the opportunity to identify objects of cultural importance from the entire site and therefore ensuring we are repatriating as effectively as possible. The purpose of the presentation is to expand our collaborative efforts on this project by reaching as many collecting institutions as we can.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37493.0